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ComedySportz (CSz) is an improvisational comedy organization started in 1984 in Milwaukee, by a group of local comedians including Dick Chudnow, Bob Orvis, Brian Green, and others.〔Fein, G. "Sporting Shots", Pasadena Weekly, September 15, 1989〕〔Winn, S. "These Games Are Strictly For Laughs", Sports Illustrated, November 26, 1990.〕〔Loesing, J. "Out on the Town", The Acorn, March 25, 1999.〕〔Patterson, D. "With honors in humor", Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2004.〕〔Berkowitz, L. "Improv is their game", Houston Chronicle, January 25, 2005.〕〔Parmet, S. "Class Clowning", The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 6, 2005.〕〔Radcliffe, J. "Laugh and Learn", Los Angeles Daily News, February 17, 2005.〕 ==Match Format== The traditional format of a ComedySportz match features two teams of improvisational performers (players), competing in various improv games and performing scenes with audience members judging the results and awarding points. In every match, a CSz referee monitors the action, awarding points, and administering fouls as necessary. The flavor is somewhat like the television show ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'', though the ComedySportz organization precedes that show's debut by 4 years. The CSz format is a higher-energy, more varied, and more sports-oriented version of the Theatresports format, which preceded ComedySportz by 7 years. ComedySportz penalties (put in place for the audience's benefit) include: * Brown Bag Foul: called when a player uses explicit language or refers to something crass or off-color. The Brown Bag Foul is infamously punished by making the offender wear a brown paper bag over their head for the remainder of the scene, even if the offender is an audience member. (In some ComedySportz venues, this has been replaced with the "Potty Mouth" foul, and the brown paper bag has been replaced with a toilet seat.) This foul is the "bagged" mentioned in the ComedySportz theme song. * Groaner Foul: whereby any player who speaks a pun bad enough to make the audience groan causing their team to lose one point (or awarding the other team with a point), unless their apology to the audience is heartfelt enough and accepted. :Example: ''Two peanuts walked into a bar. One was a salted.'' * Any spontaneously generated foul the referee feels is needed to move the match forward. Although the image of competition is maintained, the teams are often dynamic, with rosters depending on which player (many of whom have other occupations) are available for a match at any given time, and match outcomes are not pre-determined as audience voting/selected judges decide the winner. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ComedySportz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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